Dr. Charles Morin and his team at Laval University’s Department of Psychology conducted a treatment promising to combat insomnia. The cognitive behavioural therapy allowed 2/3 of the subjects to overcome their sleep problems.
For six weeks, the participants consumed a sleeping pill each day before going to bed and attended weekly behavioural psychotherapy group sessions. Then, for five months, the subjects were able to stop taking sleep medication and met monthly with a therapist individually.
The results were very interesting. After a year, more than 80% of the patients showed a significant decrease of insomnia, and 68% were no longer suffering from chronic insomnia.